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Monthly Archives: February 2015

All of us have to take care of our professional careers.

Frequently I am asking myself what should be the next thing I would like to do?, is the current role I perform the right one at medium/long term?, Which skills do I need to have the opportunity for a desired role?

Invested time by area of expertise.

In 2010 I started this picture. I have used it for different reasons: send to management for applying to positions, share with HR, annual reviews with my boss… and for thinking about where I go.

To all people I sent it, by the way not too much, they appreciate how clear is the progression and the direction of my career. And they always ask about what happens in 2007.

On the right side of this picture there is a wish list of potential roles, activities, type of projects and other professional ambitions I would like to put in place.

The second main metric I started to do was this one: # hours invested in courses.

This only include formal courses with a certificate, nothing related to personal reading/learning or any other activity.

This keeps me focused to plan new training activities related to the roles/initiatives I would like to be engaged.

The third thing I also have is the parachute diagram from Which color is your parachute. This is a powerful diagram that I recommend.

Simon Wardley has also created this table with his analysis about when the evolution of different areas will provoke a massive competence in the market. I want to keep it here to remind it in the following years.

After reading Flash Boys, I am interested about how the battle about “who is the faster one” evolves.

This is what happens if you are a domestic trader:

There are people that argues that the stock market is wrong, that it is not a fair market. There are other people which opinion is that this unfairness is there since the first day the market is there.

Confusion and lack of data is what I see when I see people talking about what is the best solution for IT Service Desk solution.

In one side we have BMC Remedy the stronger solution of the market and on the other side we have ServiceNow as the emergent solution that is being trendy right now.

We have to separate apples from pears, neither Remedy is died neither ServiceNow is the magic solution that will solve all your troubles.

BMC Remedy,

BMC has maintained its position as a global leader in the IT service desk/IT service support management market.

BMC licenses three enterprise-oriented ITSSM products:

1.- BMC Remedy ITSM Suite,

2.- BMC FootPrints Service Core (licensed perpetually on-premises)

3, BMC Remedyforce (licensed in the SaaS model)

Customers of Remedyforce and FootPrints that desire broader BMC capabilities currently do not have the same integration experience across all products in the BMC ITOM portfolio.

ServiceNow,

It has grown rapidly by targeting organizations as an IT service desk/ITSSM replacement solution.

ServiceNow was the first vendor to the ITSSM market with SaaS at scale with initial, ITIL-based incident, problem, change and configuration management automation requirements.

ServiceNow’s ITOM solutions are sold as additional products primarily aimed at adding value to ITSA by improving the visibility of the infrastructure environment. This is a market difference.

There is already a good network of developers, administrators, and partners that can build applications over the ServiceNow platform. These extensions to the core solution can be done via certified integrations and partnerships. Take care with the decision to extend the core solution, analyze deeply the investment required and the TCO.

The license model is clear for simple combinations, when you are combining the requirements and making them complex changes to pricing models have confused prospects and some customers, study this in detail.

On-premises customers pay the same as SaaS customers, even though they cover the hosting directly but do not benefit from automatic upgrades.

At the time of analyzing your situation I suggest to:

First, what main functionalities do you require? Take a look to this table,

Second, assess the maturity of your organization’s infrastructure and operations. Are you ready to go beyond? or you require a solution to stabilize your operations?

The evolution of the automotive industry in the software world provoked the industrialization of the software principles; as result we have Autosar.

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a worldwide development partnership of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics, semiconductor and software industry.

The AUTOSAR standard will serve as a platform upon which future vehicle applications will be implemented and will also serve to minimize the current barriers between functional domains. It will, therefore, be possible to map functions and functional networks to different control nodes in the system, almost independently from the associated hardware.

Some of the members of Autosar are: PSA Peugeot Citroën, Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors, Bosch and Continental.

Autosar focuses on the software architecture for electronic control units (ECU) in road vehicles, their deployment to networked ECU systems in vehicles, and the configuration of the basic software in such ECUs.

EATOP is an Eclipse-based implementation of the EAST-ADL standard, which has a relationship with Autosar through Artop.

The AUTOSAR Tool Platform User Group (Artop) develops and maintains a platform with common base functionality for creating modeling tools supporting the AUTOSAR standard. Artop essentially encompasses implementations of the different releases of the AUTOSAR meta-model plus a rich set of services and components for managing and processing AUTOSAR models.